Schoenberg: String Quartet No 2; Webern: Bagatelles Op 9; Berg: Lyric Suite – review

Piau/Lemieux/Quatuor Diotima(Naive)It was only in 1977 that the programme behind Berg's Lyric Suite and its significance to the composer's secret affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin came to light, when the composer's own annotated version of the score revealed how intimately the work was connected with his clandestine relationship. Most intriguing of all was the addition of a vocal line to the final Largo Desolato, a setting of a German translation by Stefan George of Baudelaire's poem De Profundis...

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